Oregon Officers Turn In Police Chief, Allege Racism
The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city’s police chief making racist comments.”I had to do this,” he told CNN affiliate KOIN, but he said the aftermath hasn’t been easy.”I’ve received death threats, a tire flattened with a nail on my driveway,” he said. “My kids, they’re afraid to
go outside.”
Stone’s complaint, filed along with a complaint from another officer over the summer, says that Clatskanie’s then-police chief, Marvin Hoover, compared African-Americans to monkeys, made monkey sounds and sang “Dixie” while being debriefed on the arrest of a woman who had said she was discriminated against.”While Chief Hoover was scratching and chanting, he started to move around the room, in a dance or jumping fashion. While jumping and moving about the room, Chief Hoover momentarily beat his chest like Tarzan,” Stone’s complaint said.
“As Chief Hoover was comparing African-Americans to monkeys, I began to become extremely uncomfortable. I have never been in a work environment where a manager, especially an executive officer, is openly racist.”Stone said he tried to continue questioning Hoover but was interrupted again.”This time Chief Hoover said, ‘That’s what they deserve,’ ” Stone says. Then, according to the police officer, he started singing the words to “Dixie” while pumping his fist as though he were punching someone.Officer Zack Gibson also filed a complaint with the same allegations.”Officer Stone brushed aside the antic but I could observe that it bothered him,” he wrote. “At the same time I was in disbelief that the Chief of Police was acting in such a manner while an officer is concerned he may be accused of racism.”Hoover could not be immediately reached for comment.
This event hurts me a little bit because I feel like it’s about time that we U.S. citizens stick together as a nation and stop discriminating.It’s 2015,I feel as though the racism towards all racist should be over and forgotten about.This event affects me in many ways because I’m African American. Also if this chief can discriminate against the African Americans in his town, then why wouldn’t someone discriminate against someone like him. This event impact on the world because slavery is over. We have all the same rights as everyone else. I hope this will stop soon,because there’s no reason for it to go on. In conclusion,the right actions were taken,by firing that chief because there should be consequences for discriminating against a different race than your own.